Boarding House Blues (1948)

Since watching the Whoopi Goldberg’s Moms Mabley documentary, I’ve been trying to watch her few film appearances. Sadly the quality of the version on Hoopla is extremely poor, but was watchable enough. The story is not anything new for the 1930s-40s, a group of performers have to put on a show to save the boardinghouse, but it does offer the chance to see Moms and other acts of the time in action. I did chuckle at the little twist at the end.